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Training Courses

Training Courses

These courses contain free technical training on emerging Microsoft products and
technologies. Each course includes a set of videos, hands-on labs, and source code
samples to get you up-to-speed quickly. Watch the videos to get an overview of the
technology, then download the source code and follow along in a lab to get your
hands on the technology.

Offline Training Kits

Each Training Course also links to a related offline training kit that you can download.
In addition to the videos and hands-on labs, the offline training kits contain slide
decks and demos which you can use to deliver presentations and events about the
technology.

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Windows Phone 7 promises to be an amazing mobile phone operating system given its innovative user interface and functionality, as well as its great development platform upon which you can quickly and easily build games and applications. With a myriad of new devices, a powerful and immersive software platform, and a new marketplace to attract developers and provide easy access to applications, consumer demand for Windows Phones will be high, and developers will quickly adopt the Windows Phone platform to capitalize on this growing mobile marketplace. This Training Course will give you a jumpstart into the new Windows Phone world by providing you with a step-by-step explanation of the tools to use and some key concepts for programming Windows Phones.

The Windows Azure Platform Training Course includes a comprehensive set of technical content including samples, demos, hands-on labs, and presentations, that are designed to expedite the learning process for the set of technologies released as part of the Windows Azure Platform. This release provides updated content as related to the Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 1.2 (June 2010) and Windows Azure platform AppFabric SDK V1.0 (July update). Additional content will be included in future updates.

The Silverlight 4 Training Course includes a whitepaper that explains all of the new Silverlight 4 features, several hands-on-labs that explain the features, and a 8 unit course for building business applications with Silverlight 4. The business applications course includes 8 modules with extensive hands on labs as well as 25 accompanying videos that walk you through key aspects of building a business application with Silverlight. Key aspects in this course are working with numerous sandboxed and elevated out of browser features, the new RichTextBox control, implicit styling, webcam, drag and drop, multi touch, validation, authentication, MEF, WCF RIA Services, right mouse click, and much more!